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Letter "W" » waking
«I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.»
Author: Andre Breton
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Critic,
Editor,
Founder,
Poet)
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Keywords:
amazed,
attaches,
credence,
lends,
observer,
occurring,
plaything,
playthings,
waking
«Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.»
«Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.»
Author: Jackie Gleason
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About:
Dreams
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Keywords:
cosmos,
creations,
firsthand,
Godhead,
partake,
partaken,
partakes,
partake in,
partaking,
residues,
waking
«I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.»
«O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.»
Author: Louis Aragon
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abstract,
apparent,
expel,
expelled,
fuse,
fused,
fusing,
phantom,
realities,
The Phantom,
The Phantom of,
waking
«Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.»
«It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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Keywords:
appearing,
civic,
disposed,
formidable,
lucid,
nightmare,
openly,
suction,
surrounded,
waking,
well-disposed
«I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I cannot go.»
«It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.»
«There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.»